WWALS Watershed Coalition advocates for conservation and stewardship of the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Little, and Suwannee River watersheds in south Georgia and north Florida through education, awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen activities.

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Yesterday’s EPA PFAS plan does nothing except to study for a year or more
what has already been studied.
Where are the limits on amounts of these firefighting chemicals in water
that would enable EPA or GA-EPD to test private wells,
for example for
the PFAS that got into groundwater from Moody Air Force Base’s
Wastewater Treatment Plant,
causing Moody’s report to say be careful eating fish caught in Beatty Branch
or Cat Creek, upstream from the Withlacoochee River?
Where are the funds and methods to remediate the problem and to stop
it getting worse?

OilPrice.com calls it “a critical decision yesterday,
that could jeopardize the future for pipeline projects across the country”;
pipeline companies could be “spooked” and
“…the court ruling raises the unsettling
possibility that the project may be forced to shut down —
after billions were spent putting it in into service.”
Other stories say this ‘huge’ win could also affect
the Atlantic Sunrise, Penneast, Atlantic Coast, and Rover Pipelines,
among others.

(L to R) Lea Fox, 4, Finn Ryder Purdy, 4, and Mason Dana, 7, of Lake
Worth, sit with gas pipeline protesters outside of Florida Power and
Light headquarters on Universe Boulevard in Juno Beach on October
14, 2016. The Sabal Trail Pipeline began supplying FPL’s plants in
June. Groups opposed the pipeline that will start in Alabama and
bring fracked gas through several counties in Florida’s springs and
wetlands. (Richard Graulich / The Palm Beach Post)

Sad for FPL, Duke, Spectra, and all the other pipeline-building
purveyors of fracked methane, maybe, but glad for all the
landowners whose land was taken, local citizens who don’t want
a 500+-mile IED next to their homes, schools, and waterways,
and all people who want clean sun and wind energy, not more polluting fossil fuels.

It’s good the industry press agrees with what I told the VDT:
“This is wind in our sails and could be the end of Sabal Trail.”

Sabal Trail did not notify state or local officials about their “odorant” leak
at the Dunnellon Compressor Station site,
and
Sabal Trail’s
response to WWALS
failed to mention local people called the same stink in to 911 two days
in a row.
FDEP
said there’s no need so long as Sabal Trail follows various permits,
but gave no indication of who is checking to see if Sabal Trail does that.
Apparently we the people have to keep doing what the state and federal
agencies still aren’t doing: watch Sabal Trail like a hawk.

Google map of locations of Dunnellon High School and Sabal Trail Dunnellon Compressor Station.
You can see most of the 100-foot Sabal Trail right of way.

Join us to discuss how
fracking feeds the frenzy of pipeline building,
to LNG export, promoted by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
and other impending “free trade” treaties.
All those 20th-century dying dinosaurs are already being overtaken
by solar and wind power.